sure you can put it in the micro on defrost.
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I thaw it in the fridge or microwave. Does your microwave have a defrost by pounds setting? That's all I do. Except usually it has that little piece of plastic stuck to it, and I thaw for a bit, then pull that bit off, then thaw for a bit more.
Or run it under cold water.
if you're not sure the setting you can just put it on 50% power but it thaws from the outside so you have to kind of scrape off the stuff that thaws after every couple minutes.
Alternately: if I was making something like chili I would dump the frozen turkey right in the frying pan over low heat and stir & break it up until it was uniformly cooked.
I've put ground meat right in the pan, too, and defrosted it as I went. I don't know if that's bad for the Danger Zone or whatever, but it works for the microwave-free.
I have not had any pork today, and it looks like I'm not going to. Ah well.
I'm not sure that the microwave has a defrost setting. I suppose I should take it out of the butcher paper?
It's just that I don't generally freeze meat, but I had to throw this in the freezer before I left for Xmas vacation (or it would go over for sure). Now I'd like to shorten the time it takes to unfreeze so I can start making it into Turkey Helper.
It's about 2/3rds of a pound, so we're not talking all that much to wait to unfreeze, but still.
Oh yah, for turkey helper just throw it right in the pan.
It's been sitting on the counter for about an hour now -- which I feel sure is too short a time to develop botulism -- so I suppose pan-frying (which would have been its fate anyway) is the next step....
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